Clifford Williams (35) and Daniel Ogunyemi (tipping basketball) will be reaching for rebounds for Simsboro High School tonight when the No. 5 Class B/C ranked Tigers play host to Doyline High in a regular-season finale. The Tigers have a 23-6 record and will feature “Senior Night” activities with the contest against Doyline.

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The Louisiana Tech University Athletics Ticket Office will be closed through the remainder of the week.

With ticket office personnel in Las Vegas to work the 2013 Western Athletic Conference basketball tournament this week, Tech fans needing to purchase game tickets for this weekend’s home baseball series between the Bulldogs and Stephen F. Austin can do so online at www.ticketmaster.com or at the gates to J.C. Love Field at Pat Patterson each day of the starting 90 minutes before the first pitch.

NORMAN, Okla. — It was a situation fans of Louisiana Tech Bulldogs basketball had seen before.

The sting of past results could still be felt.

Louisiana Tech was winless in eight tries against Oklahoma, two of which went into overtime.
One of those overtime heartbreakers was the last time the two teams met in 2001. The other was the unforgettable Sweet Sixteen matchup in 1985.

And on Monday night the Bulldogs and Sooners went into overtime again, but this time Tech Nation would feel the thrill of victory as Tech shocked the Sooners, 102-98, inside Lloyd Noble Center.

STILLWATER, Okla. — Kurt Budke believed in Oklahoma State when no one else did, and he wasn’t afraid to show it.

Less than two years after his Cowgirls failed to win any of their 16 conference games, Budke led them up against powerhouse Oklahoma and reigning national player of the year Courtney Paris. He supported his upstart team with a fashion statement: the brightest orange blazer he could find.

Behind a scintillating 45-point game from Andrea Riley, the Cowgirls upset the sixth-ranked Sooners for the first time in nine years.